Thursday, 14 February 2013

For a Special Little One...or a Penguin

Yee haw, people, it's time for a quilty reveal!Penguin has something to show you.

This way, please, he says.

The lady of the house has been busy with her fabrics and her scissors and whirring machine and now we're joining in the fun, me and my motley crew of friends over there...

She's regressed back to her childhood and turned the guest room into a nursery!

But basically, she wants you to know that she has used some "gorgeous" fabrics she's been hoarding to make a cute quilt. Some have groovy alphabet letters and punctuation marks on, some have cowboy style dots and stripes, and...and...she sneaked in some florals, tut tut.

She thought she could get away with it as they're not pink. But the Munchkin likes them and has them in his quilt, she says, so that's ok, they are officially "awesome", whatever that is. It has blocks which are an "hourglass" shape, she says, and lots of nice, fresh, white cotton.She has put a groovy print on the back which looks really vintagey and has cool cowboys on it, oh and the edge has some sort of check-y stuff, it's called binding, hand sewn the proper way, apparently.

She is thinking there might be a little someone out there who would like this quilt. It's smaller than her usual ones and would be great in a cot, maybe. Definitely, it's super snuggly. She says it's in her shop here.That's a shame, as I kinda like it.

Lovely and cute, the cowboys are so awesome! It is sometimes very hard to find unique things for boys. There is normally 10 times the pieces for girls to 1 or 2 for boys! Someone will have a lucky little boy with an adorable heirloom! Maybe I'll have to have you make one for my little guy one day and send over!

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About Me

Hello and thank you for visiting the HenHouse. I'm a stay-at-home thirty-something mum looking after Mr HenHouse and the Munchkin, aged 13 (going on 18). We also have a gorgeous and very spoiled ginger tom, Charlie Boy. Sadly we had to say goodbye to our two other furry boys this year. We have recently moved from the city to our dream home in the West Country. I have always loved vintage and have collections of eiderdowns, china and fabrics to name just a few. I love sewing and am an avid patchworker and quilter. As a family, we are dotty about the past and love the 1940s, often dressing up for re-enactment events. To fund my fabric habit, I sell handmade items in my Etsy shop. I'm pretty nutty about interiors, too and our homes have been featured in various magazines.